Gierau Prosecution Raises Ethical Conflicts

BREAKING!

Legal hot potato tossed to Fremont County prosecutor

By GIL BRADY
The Cowboy Picayune-Sunny Times

Filed 7.27.07

JACKSON, Wyo. (CT) – A local prosecutor has asked Fremont County’s prosecuting attorney to assume the case of former Wyoming Democratic Party Chairman Mike Gierau who allegedly drove under the influence of alcohol in March.

Teton County Prosecuting Attorney Steve Weichman, a Republican, said last week that when Gierau was a local county commissioner he recommended Weichman for his current post.

Weichman, since reelected, was appointed after current 9th Circuit Judge Timothy C. Day left his old job as county prosecuting attorney for private practice in 1996.

“If the resolution of (Gierau’s) case is perceived to be a sweetheart deal,” Weichman said recently, “there would be at least the appearance that I owed him.”

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